
Ranging from emotive personal essays to rich creative non-fiction, this section seeks to tell colourful first person perspective stories.

Compulsory heteronormativity in my South Asian community convinced me I was straight for 18 years

‘Constant high drama’: what it can be like to date with a borderline personality disorder


How my Chinese meal times encouraged a positive relationship with food

How I reclaimed my identity as a queer Bengali Muslim

The Home Office is locking up thousands of modern slavery survivors – I’m one of them


As a former sceptic, an ancestral connection has become a lifeline in lockdown

Raised in a British Pakistani sisterhood, I never expected to lose my sister to cancer

‘Some of us never allow whiteness into our throats, some of us code-switch’ – how our voices shape…

As lockdown drags on, autistic people like my brother are struggling to adjust

Single South Asian women like me are feeling the pressure of ageing in lockdown

Like Yewande, I’ve had enough of people mispronouncing my name on purpose
